Mike Riley

Daniel Coudreaut. You probably have never heard of him. But as head of culinary innovation for McDonald's USA operations, he may be the most influential chef in America. He says there's nothing nutritionally wrong with the McDonald's menu.

Graduation Season is in full swing here in Western New York and across the United States. Graduations are usually a time for family celebrations, but for one South Carolina mom, cheering her daughter's achievement led to several hours in jail.

According to USmarriagelaws.com, 49 of the 50 United States have a minimum marriage age (without parental permission) of 18. (Nebraska holds out for 19.) But I'm beginning to wonder if that might be a little too young.

Do you ever wake up, look at the news, and say to yourself that this is the day that you've gone completely insane, or, at the very least, that most of the rest of the world has? Well, this is my red-letter day!

I've always heard that everyone has a twin out there . Over the years, I've seen a few of them, usually sitting a row or two over on the bus. You may have run into one or two of yours as well. But how many name twins do you have?

We of the modern world owe much to science. Science has improved our health and our understanding of our place in the universe. It's helped us see how the creatures of the past became the animals of today . And, sometimes, science does things that we wouldn't understand the point of in a million years, no matter how hard we think about them.

Anyone who's watched more than, say, three minutes of Hell's Kitchen has seen chef Gordon Ramsay berate his charges like a drill sergeant from, well, Hell. He's a little nicer on Master Chef, but still not the person you might want to learn cooking from.

You probably realize that tens-of-thousands of songs are released every year in the United States. The vast majority of them sell a few copies to friends and family, then disappear. But a few, a very few, make it onto the radio.

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